SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-A female was struck by a car Monday night in Santa Barbara.

It happened around 10 p.m at the intersection of Vine Avenue and East De La Guerra Street.

The driver fled the scene, hitting two other cars in the way.

The pedestrian was transported to the hospital; it's unknown about her injury conditions

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Por Kevin Liptak, Kylie Atwood, Zachary Cohen y Jennifer Hansler, CNN en Español

Después de ordenar el mayor aumento militar estadounidense en Medio Oriente desde el inicio de la guerra de Iraq, el presidente Donald Trump ahora tiene que tomar una decisión sobre Irán.

Las opciones que tiene ante sí parecen relativamente bien definidas, confirmadas vagamente por el propio presidente durante sesiones informales de preguntas y respuestas durante las últimas semanas y descritas con más detalle por personas familiarizadas con el asunto.

Las posibilidades son muy variadas, algunas de las cuales conllevan riesgos significativos, y a veces recibe consejos contradictorios de aliados, asesores y homólogos extranjeros.

• Trump podría abstenerse de ordenar cualquier acción militar, con la esperanza de que la presencia de dos portaviones, docenas de buques de guerra y cientos de cazas de combate frente a las costas de Irán pueda convencer a sus líderes de llegar a un acuerdo.
• Podría ordenar un ataque limitado contra objetivos militares para dejar en claro sus exigencias de que Irán abandone cualquier capacidad de construir armas nucleares.
• Podría aprobar un ataque destinado a derrocar a los líderes de Irán, incluso si se desconoce quién los reemplazará: el enfoque más maximalista.

“Todo lo que se ha escrito sobre una posible guerra con Irán se ha escrito incorrectamente, y a propósito”, declaró Trump en Truth Social el lunes. “Soy yo quien toma la decisión; prefiero un acuerdo a no hacerlo, pero si no lo logramos, será un día muy malo para ese país y, lamentablemente, para su gente”.

Menos claro es qué pretende lograr Trump con precisión. También resulta un misterio por qué está considerando actuar ahora o en qué autoridades legales podría basarse para lanzar el segundo ataque contra Irán en ocho meses.

El presidente ha hecho pocos esfuerzos por construir un argumento público a favor o en contra de una posible guerra.

Entre bastidores, Trump escucha opiniones divergentes sobre si ordenar nuevos ataques o, dado el grave riesgo de verse envuelto en un conflicto prolongado, permitir que continúen las gestiones diplomáticas.

Estos son los caminos que Trump está considerando y cómo la administración está pensando en cada uno de ellos.

Los principales funcionarios de la Casa Blanca siguen diciendo que la preferencia de Trump es asegurar un acuerdo con Irán que evite cualquier tipo de confrontación militar.

El enviado del presidente, Steve Witkoff, y su yerno, Jared Kushner, han mantenido conversaciones indirectas con funcionarios iraníes durante las últimas semanas y regresarán a Ginebra, Suiza, el jueves para una nueva ronda.

Ambos negociadores han instado al presidente a dar tiempo para ver si es posible llegar a un acuerdo, aunque Witkoff declaró el sábado que Trump siente curiosidad por saber por qué Irán no ha cedido en las negociaciones.

Cada bando ha trazado límites, y algunos entran en conflicto directo. Trump afirma que no se debe permitir que Irán enriquezca uranio. Irán afirma que es su derecho e insiste en que su programa nuclear solo tiene fines pacíficos.

Los iraníes todavía están trabajando en una propuesta que podría salvar esa brecha y esperan compartirla con los mediadores de Omán antes de las importantes conversaciones del jueves, según una fuente familiarizada con el asunto.

“Este jueves se decidirá todo, una guerra o un acuerdo”, declaró una fuente regional conocedora de las conversaciones.

Trump lanzó ataques sorpresa contra el programa nuclear de Irán el año pasado antes de otra ronda programada de conversaciones entre Estados Unidos e Irán, pero esta vez fuentes regionale

By John Liu, CNN

(CNN) — United States artificial intelligence firm Anthropic is accusing three prominent Chinese AI labs of illegally extracting capabilities from its Claude model to advance their own, claiming it raises national security concerns.

The Chinese unicorns – DeepSeek, Minimax and Moonshot AI – created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and trained their models using over 16 million exchanges with Claude, a process known as distillation, Anthropic alleged in a Monday blogpost.

CNN has reached out to DeepSeek, MiniMax and Moonshot AI for comment.

Distillation is a common method of training in the AI industry with frontier labs often distilling their own models to make cheaper versions for customers. But most leading proprietary AI model providers including Anthropic explicitly ban such practices. Claude is not available in China.

The accusations come after Anthropic’s rival OpenAI made similar allegations earlier this month that DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies are illegally distilling its ChatGPT models over the past year, in a memo sent to the US House Select Committee on China.

DeepSeek shocked the industry last year when it launched a powerful model close to matching industry frontrunners like ChatGPT – but with fewer computing resources required.

This development challenged the prevailing wisdom then that training advanced models require more processing power, and raised questions about the effectiveness of US tech and export controls.

OpenAI then said it was reviewing evidence that DeepSeek “may have improperly distilled” its models.

In the memo this month, OpenAI said the rapid advancements of DeepSeek are based on “its ongoing efforts to free-ride on the capabilities developed by OpenAI and other US frontier labs.”

DeepSeek has yet to comment publicly on Open AI’s allegations.

Anthropic warned that illicitly distilled models may lack safety guardrails that companies like itself and other US model providers implement, and that they could create national security risks if they are used for cybercrimes and bio-weapons, for example.

These models could also enable “authoritarian governments to deploy frontier AI for offensive cyber operations, disinformation campaigns, and mass surveillance,” it said. “The window to act is narrow.”

Making the case for US export controls

DeepSeek’s surprising rise ignited debate over whether US export controls had failed. But Anthropic argued that the fact that Chinese AI labs in question developed high-performance models through distillation underscored the rationale for those restrictions, which it said it has long supported to preserve the US’s lead in AI.

Besides DeepSeek, MiniMax and Moonshot AI’s model Kimi have risen to prominence in China, becoming known as “AI tigers.” The three currently rank among the top 15 models on the prominent Artificial Analysis leaderboard.

Anthropic said that by exposing the distillation attempts, it demonstrates the effectiveness of export controls and shows that cutting-edge model development cannot be sustained alone through innovation without access to advanced chips.

“In reality, these advancements depend in significant part on capabilities extracted from American models, and executing this extraction at scale requires access to advanced chips,” it said.

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SUMMERLAND, Calif. (KEYT) Firefighters were guests of honor at the "Disco Inferno."

The Santa Barbara South Coast Firefighter Foundation hosted its Second Annual Disco Inferno on Sunday, Feb. 22nd.

It took place at The Hanger at Bella Vista Ranch in Summerland.

Foundation President Brian Lombardi said the money raised will help fund all sorts of things firefighters are involved with in the local community.

They include the Junior Lifeguard Program, swim lessons, helmet and pads for sports, and other community needs.

Gail Kvistad is a founding board member.

She said professional dancers did a disco demonstration.

Guests also enjoyed photo opportunities and an auction.

There is still time to donate to the foundation.

For more information visit https://sbsouthcoastff.com

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - Cal Poly could not hang onto a 4-3 lead and they dropped the series finale with Washington State 5-4. The two teams split the 4-game series.

The Cougars (3-4) tied the game at 4 in the top of the eighth inning on an RBI double by Luke Thiele and scored what proved to be the game-winner on an RBI ground out by Max Hartman in the 9th inning.

The Mustangs (4-3) erased a 3-1 deficit in the middle innings by getting a solo home run by freshman Gavin Spiridonoff which was his collegiate homer. They tied game in the sixth inning on a sacrifice fly by Vinnie VanderVel and tookj the lead in the seventh inning when Dante Vachini raced home on a wild pitch.

Cal Poly stays at home and begins a 4-game home stand with USC starting Thursday night with first pitch at 6 p.m.

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